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white-ˈbearded, a.
[white a. 12 c.]
Having a white beard. a. Of a man.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 509 Falstaffe, that old white-bearded Sathan. 1914D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd iii. 81 A little stout, white-bearded man.
b. Of wheat.
1788G. Washington Diary 8 Sept. (1925) III. 417 Also sowing..one bushel of the White bearded Wheat sent me by Beale Boardly. 1850Rep. U.S. Comm. Patents 1849: Agric. 132 The white-bearded wheat, a valuable kind less liable to total failure than any other; not very popular with millers.
c. fig.
1920E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 100 And, mourners too, white-bearded seas Walk slowly by them as they come. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. (Suppl.) 1/1 Waves came solid green and white-bearded, like frost giants racing. |